Find A Grave contributor CDKetchen has made a suggestion to you regarding your Find A Grave memorial for George Bonner: Another researcher provided the following information to me regarding this soldier. It is from the 8-17-1910 Spartanburg Herald:
BONNER, GEO. WASHINGTON – Born Feb. 22, 1839, in Spartanburg county. Enlisted April, 1861, Co. M, 5th S.C. Reg. Reorganized as Palmetto Sharpshooters, Capt. J.Q. CARPENTER. Was sergeant at close of war. Wounded first battle of Bull Run and siege of Petersburg, Va. Teacher, farmer and merchant. "Our company went out in 5th S.C., but at re-organization near Richmond, joined Palmetto Sharpshooters, MICAH JENKINS was our colonel. I served the four years of war in Virginia, except one trip to Chattanooga and east Tennessee in winter of 1863. Was in the most of the battles in Virginia during war."
BONNER, GEO. WASHINGTON – Born Feb. 22, 1839, in Spartanburg county. Enlisted April, 1861, Co. M, 5th S.C. Reg. Reorganized as Palmetto Sharpshooters, Capt. J.Q. CARPENTER. Was sergeant at close of war. Wounded first battle of Bull Run and siege of Petersburg, Va. Teacher, farmer and merchant. "Our company went out in 5th S.C., but at re-organization near Richmond, joined Palmetto Sharpshooters, MICAH JENKINS was our colonel. I served the four years of war in Virginia, except one trip to Chattanooga and east Tennessee in winter of 1863. Was in the most of the battles in Virginia during war."
Find A Grave contributor CDKetchen has made a suggestion to you regarding your Find A Grave memorial for George Bonner: Another researcher provided the following information to me regarding this soldier. It is from the 8-17-1910 Spartanburg Herald:
BONNER, GEO. WASHINGTON – Born Feb. 22, 1839, in Spartanburg county. Enlisted April, 1861, Co. M, 5th S.C. Reg. Reorganized as Palmetto Sharpshooters, Capt. J.Q. CARPENTER. Was sergeant at close of war. Wounded first battle of Bull Run and siege of Petersburg, Va. Teacher, farmer and merchant. "Our company went out in 5th S.C., but at re-organization near Richmond, joined Palmetto Sharpshooters, MICAH JENKINS was our colonel. I served the four years of war in Virginia, except one trip to Chattanooga and east Tennessee in winter of 1863. Was in the most of the battles in Virginia during war."
BONNER, GEO. WASHINGTON – Born Feb. 22, 1839, in Spartanburg county. Enlisted April, 1861, Co. M, 5th S.C. Reg. Reorganized as Palmetto Sharpshooters, Capt. J.Q. CARPENTER. Was sergeant at close of war. Wounded first battle of Bull Run and siege of Petersburg, Va. Teacher, farmer and merchant. "Our company went out in 5th S.C., but at re-organization near Richmond, joined Palmetto Sharpshooters, MICAH JENKINS was our colonel. I served the four years of war in Virginia, except one trip to Chattanooga and east Tennessee in winter of 1863. Was in the most of the battles in Virginia during war."
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